Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2022

All of these retailers succeed by building hype around the launch, priming their loyal customers to place their order as soon as the product or service is released. In 2021, face coverings and masks from stars like Kanye West saw a 154% average resell price increase from $82 to $208. How Resellers Use Bots to Their Advantage.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

Online fraud cost digital commerce merchants $27 billion in 2021 , so it’s no surprise that retailers have redoubled their focus on eliminating these threats. As just one example, Chewy was a pandemic winner, but the company spent more than half a billion dollars marketing to consumers in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2022

As early as February 2021, industry analysts predicted the year’s holiday ecommerce sales would climb to $206.88 billion, accounting for a record 18.9% Transmit Security’s own research found that 55% of consumers have left a website because the login process was too complicated. increase over last year’s ecommerce earnings.

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Small Biz Trends

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A chargeback happens when a payment is reversed by the customer’s bank. It’s called chargeback fraud when bad actors cheat this process. Instead of contacting a merchant for a refund, they go right to their financial institution. Merchant Errors. This one happens with a merchant account.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

31, 2021. “We’re toy industry sales increased 11% in Q3 2021 from 2020, according to the NPD Group , driven by price increases, a continuation of pandemic lifestyles and fewer promotions. Even outside of the holiday season, uptake in buy now, pay later (BNPL) services is exploding in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We’re indifferent on where the shopping journey ends, where that transaction takes place ,” said Matt Madrigal, VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “It The result is a much lower barrier of entry for merchants looking to capitalize on Google’s massive reach.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

A post-pandemic uptick in Australian e-commerce is here to stay, according to a new study conducted by order and delivery management software company ShipStation. The business surveyed 2000 global consumers to compile the data, releasing the report to highlight retailer opportunities that continue to arise in the sector.

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V Count

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As a business owner or a store manager, you’ll face countless challenges, and turning your business into a successful one usually requires time, effort and commitment. A modern POS system lets you accept customer payments at a specific location or on the go and can help you track your sales in an efficient way.

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V Count

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As a business owner or a store manager, you’ll face countless challenges, and turning your business into a successful one usually requires time, effort and commitment. A modern POS system lets you accept customer payments at a specific location or on the go and can help you track your sales in an efficient way.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 26, 2021

ATLANTA — The amount of retail fraud, and its cost, has risen significantly over the past year, according to the 12th annual LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2021 True Cost of Fraud Study. retail and ecommerce merchants $3.60 To that end, there is limited merchant use of solutions designed to support both issues. compared to $3.13

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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

With only two months left of 2021, retailers should already be looking ahead to the new year for the newest trends, technology, marketing tactics, products, and solutions for improving their business. Crypto Payments Help Deliver a Competitive Advantage. First, up to 40 percent of customers that pay with crypto are new to the merchant.

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Small Biz Trends

MAY 13, 2022

Hurricane Ida pummeled the northeast coast for three days, September 1-3, 2021. They let you know what your customers like about your products and services and what they don’t. However, Otherdeed for Otherside managed to generate more than $380 million in sales for the week. That’s an increase of 45% from 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2021

accounted for $5 billion of Alibaba’s total $74.1 Max Bissell, VP and General Manager of Hard Surface and Robotics at floorcare brand Bissell , which has participated in 11.11 There are certain steps that need to take place, whether that’s around marketing or payments or choosing a trade partner or your marketing partners.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As the supply chain issues and labour shortages that defined the 2021 festive period are more or less resolved, the opportunity for a strong peak period presents itself. In fact, in 2021, the UK alone accounted for over ten per cent of global Black Friday searches online. Inventory management is key.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2022

Retail TouchPoints recently partnered with Amazon Web Services on a survey of 500 retail and brand executives and found that the vast majority ( 84% ) have incorporated CSR in some way into their business strategies, largely because they think it is the right thing to do ( 72% ).

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

You can use Google My Business to display messaging about updated delivery or pickup options and adjusted hours of operation, as well as any extra services you may be providing to the local community, for example. Much of what we do, including how we work, play and buy goods and services, has shifted massively during the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

ecommerce merchants pulled in $10.8 billion on Cyber Monday 2020 , while Singles Day in November 2021 in China drove $139 billion in sales for two of that country’s major online shopping platforms. That includes frictionless payments and checkout and fast shipping options. Consider that in the U.S.,

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jason: [8:04] No I was just I was just thinking that they I assume they left it blank because the underwriters were out of practice. There’s also the others you can think of Jason there’s this one.

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2022

The industry’s latest move: accepting cryptocurrency as a form of payment. In August 2021, German streetwear brand Philipp Plein became the first fashion brand to accept cryptocurrency at its new crypto concept store in London. Since the beginning of this year, a number of brands have begun to process crypto payments in-store.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Episode 286 is a hot take on Amazon Q4 2021 earnings. Amazon released their Q4 (and full year) earnings for 2021 on Thursday February 3rd. in 2021, which was just above the industry average of 17.9% In 2021 total revenue was $31.16B growing at 32% Year over Year. In this episode we do a deep dive into all the details.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Episode 315 is a recap of Turkey5 (The five days from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday) 2023 with Rob Garf , Vice President and General Manager, Retail at Salesforce. Consumers were patient, waiting for attractive deals, while retailers managed their inventory and discounting strategies well.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 20, 2023

s management training program. At Eckerd, Vasos rose quickly through store operations ranks from assistant store manager to store manager, district manager and regional manager before joining Phar-Mor Food and Drug Inc., where he led the operations teams and later served as a merchant.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

Most buy now, pay later offers are interest- and fee-free, unless customers miss a payment. consumers say they have used a buy now, pay later service, according to a recent study from The Ascent, a Motley Fool service. By 2025, buy now, pay later is projected to account for 1.6% ($941 billion ) of global POS transaction value.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2023

Super apps in Asia are trendy, and with good reason: they gather together a number of essential everyday services onto a single, easy-to-use platform. Sea, for example, provides an integrated suite of e-commerce (through Shopee), digital entertainment and financial services. Financial services accounted for $412.8

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Store Growers

JUNE 14, 2023

Last Updated on June 14, 2023 If you’re working with Google Merchant Center and Google Shopping , you’re probably already aware of the existence of Performance Max, but if you’re wondering what all the hype is about surrounding it, read on. Launched in late 2021, Performance Max is one of Google’s latest innovative assets.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Source: Bloomberg "[Forever 21] has lost much of the excitement and oomph which is critical to driving footfall and sales and is now something of an also-ran which is too easily overlooked," said Neil Saunders, the managing director of GlobalData Retail. An inability to leverage social media effectively. and ultimately profitability.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 30, 2021

Episode 262 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday April 30, 2021. To have it easy to remember password that can easily be hacked and some payment providers even give you the option to not to literally not have a password. We recap Amazon, EBay, and Shopify Q1 earnings reports. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Shopify Unite 2021 Instagram leans into commerce Nike earnings Warby Parker IPO. Episode 269 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday July 8, 2021. Jeff Bezos steps down Amazon offers it’s multi-channel fulfillment (MCF) to Big Commerce customers. Other News. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 29, 2022

Key Topics: Declining macro economics First quarter 1P sales were down year-over-year for the first time in two decades, as it had to comp against a very strong Q1 2021 which was elevated by the pandemic. In this episode we do a deep dive into all the details. AWS getting a strong boost from the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2021

Executives from a who’s who of retailers, social networks and even advocacy groups shared their visions of retail’s future at NRF Converge 2021 , held June 21-25. At Gap, training was a priority to ensure managers could “build their inclusive leadership muscle” and all employees could become better allies.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 6, 2022

billion annual active customers last year while JD.com had 552 million active accounts in the year ended September 2021. In the fourth quarter of 2021 Alibaba generated revenues of $37.6 billion in 2021. Digital Payments. The two main mobile payment platforms, WeChat and Alipay have more than 1.2

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 1, 2022

Very profitable, doing really well you’ve got a smaller ad business super profitable doing really well growing rapidly AWS the cloud component now merchant services which is essentially the monetization of the, Center asset you had to build for the first piece. And as I mentioned at the top third-party one today.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

your Share account so when your chair count goes up it puts a natural pressure downward pressure on your EPS number. [5:44] what happens is in many brokerage accounts you can’t buy a fractional shares so. Scot: [5:08] Yes so one of the things it’s been a busy week for Amazon so.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Scot: [5:04] And then so then that was your primary thing so then you did you guys realize that you needed to build you look at all the software for shipping and inventory management and build your own and then you, tell the story of that. Pain management we really tried to rely on our.

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Store Growers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

pMax campaigns were only announced a few months ago, but right now they are on top of the to-do list for many businesses and services providers. Because now you can show ads in all those places, with a single campaign that takes less work to set up and manage! Google only announced Performance Max in November of 2021.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 11, 2021

Episode 266 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday June 11, 2021. Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 266 being recorded on Thursday June 10th 2021 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Transcript.

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Retail Geek

MAY 28, 2021

Episode 265 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday May 27, 2021. Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 265 being recorded on Thursday May 27th 2021 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Digital up 82% vs 2 YA. Transcript.

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